This level of descriptive brilliance in a news story about another Christian-right homophobe lo and behold turning out to have hired a male prostitute is the kind of thing that makes it difficult for students of "literature" to define what writing does and does not count as such.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
"[A]n old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over"
Posted by Phoebe Maltz Bovy at Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Labels: tour d'ivoire
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The story didn't contain a picture of the mustache, so I had to search out a picture. See here:
http://turi.posterous.com/rentboycom-more-than-just-rentboys
As I suspected, it's what I would have called a "Freddy Mercury" mustache.
It's funny, as a writer I went straight to Google after reading this story to see if anyone else had noticed how brilliantly this little gem of a news story was written. Kudos to you. Wouldn't you love to read a short story by this reporter?
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